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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Neeka want to attain?
(a) Enough money to hire a babysitter for her brothers.
(b) She has no idea.
(c) A published book.
(d) Tupac's level of fame.

2. What quality does Neeka want to have?
(a) She does not say.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Sex appeal.
(d) Integrity.

3. What happens after Tupac recovers from being shot?
(a) He moves to California.
(b) He decides to sue the girl who accuses him.
(c) He is sent to prison.
(d) He writes a rap song about racism and the justice system

4. Why is Tash moved?
(a) He is not moved.
(b) He is moved to a work camp.
(c) He is harrassed about being gay and Tash cuts the man.
(d) He asked to get closer to his family.

5. What does Neeka think she cannot find in her family?
(a) Serenity.
(b) Her Big Purpose.
(c) A man who will tolerate them.
(d) Popularity.

6. What does the narrator say is the effect of Tash's music?
(a) She does not mention Tash's music.
(b) The lyrics bothered a lot of people.
(c) It enlivened everyone.
(d) It made ladies cry.

7. How is Sly whenever Tash meets him?
(a) Gushy.
(b) Cold and aloof.
(c) Alone and seemingly friendless.
(d) Acts like a Queen.

8. Where does the narrator go with Miss Irene one Saturday in the summer?
(a) To see Neeka's father in a hospital.
(b) To the amphiteater where she had such an emotional experience.
(c) To visit Tash in prison.
(d) To interview at a college.

9. Who is Sly?
(a) An effeminate gay man.
(b) A masculine tough man.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A cop.

10. How does Tash refer to himself?
(a) The Princess.
(b) Tash.
(c) Sister.
(d) The Queen.

11. What does D vow after hearing the counselor?
(a) To show the counselfor that she was tough.
(b) To find her birth mother who would love her.
(c) To find her birth father who would love her.
(d) To be the perfect child.

12. To what does the narrator relate Tupac's arrest?
(a) To the arrest of others in Queens.
(b) To Mandela's arrest.
(c) To how slaves were brutalized.
(d) To Mahatma Gandhi's arrest.

13. What does the narrator endure in order to get to where they are going?
(a) The pitying glaces of white people.
(b) Hearing Miss Irene talk on and on.
(c) Rejection from the college.
(d) A poor breakfast and long train and bus rides.

14. What does Neeka say about Tash?
(a) He has a bad temper, but would not do any more than slap a person.
(b) He is scary.
(c) He would not hurt a fly.
(d) At least he is out of drugs in prison.

15. Who is Flo?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) A kind woman who does not want D for the government benefits.
(c) D's real mother.
(d) Neeka's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jayjones say happens to black men in the wrong places?

2. What does D say about a counselor's statement in a group home?

3. Who does Tash say he will repay?

4. What does Neeka's group share?

5. Who is Randall?

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